Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

16 quotes in 367 categories

• How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
• Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion.…
• When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
• It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars,…
• It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.
• We are each the love of someone's life.
• Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them…
• It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
• Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace…
• No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my…
• A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of…
• How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish…
• Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole…
• Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
• So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
• When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

Browse Andrew Sean Greer Quotes by Category